Milk production is expected to increase significantly across the EU in the years following the removal of the quota system, but in 2015, an increase of just 1% is expected, according to the Commission’s latest short-term market outlook. The supply increase is expected to be higher in countries seeing an expansion of the dairy...

Today, EU Member States clearly voted in favour of the Commission’s proposal to stagger the superlevy fines in three equal interest-free instalments. Even the more liberal-minded countries such as the UK and Sweden were in favour of the proposal. Only three countries (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Slovakia) voted against....